Public Safety committee  That's correct.

Public Safety committee  Thank you for letting me present my research regarding Canadian firearms legislation and its association with homicide, spousal homicide, mass homicide and suicide in Canada. I am an assistant clinical professor of medicine and an emergency physician in Ontario. I serve as an ac

Public Safety committee  No, I think it's a serious problem going into the future. We're seeing more and more unidentified guns coming up in the statistics. I think any restrictions on imports may cause a small reduction in the numbers available, but I suspect that over time there will be substitute met

Public Safety committee  They're definitely a problem worth addressing, but I think most of your methods are probably going to be futile in the end.

Public Safety committee  I think the sections that I've talked about, especially the handgun ban, are not going to have any effect, and I have certain concerns about the prohibition orders. The system we have now allows someone to make an anonymous complaint to a CFO. In my experience, those have been r

Public Safety committee  It's not a leap because you can extrapolate from the fact that a large number of handguns were already banned in the 1990s and there was no effect. There's been a large increase in the number of handguns owned by Canadians since 2000 and there's been no similar increase in the ra

Public Safety committee  First of all, you need to read the American Journal of Public Health study, because that study also showed that a woman who owns a firearm for protection is less likely to be killed. That was a cross-sectional study, and those are the weakest studies of all. It was also an Ameri

Public Safety committee  For violence, that already exists. If you have a significant concern that a patient is about to commit a homicide or violence, you have a duty to report to the police. In terms of suicide—

Public Safety committee  You asked me two questions, so let me get into it, because that's a different subject. What you're asking me to do as a physician is send to the CFO all of my patients who have had any form of depression or suicidal discussion, which may not be intent, and for them to keep a rec

Public Safety committee  I would suspect that's the case. I don't have evidence for that. I would strongly doubt it.

Public Safety committee  My research has looked at the years over 1974 to 2016, during which time there have been a number of legislative regulations implemented, some of which involves licensing implemented in 2001. Unfortunately, there's no evidence that there has been any reduction in homicide rates o

Public Safety committee  Yes, of course. Firearms injuries are a serious issue. What we're talking about today is legislation, and I've done research on that. Dr. Ahmed has not. This is what the evidence shows. I can only bring you what the evidence shows.

Public Safety committee  Sure, and the point of my research is to address some of those issues. As I said, in the 1990s, over 550,000 firearms were banned, which included handguns. Australia also banned handguns, essentially restricting them to people like Olympic sports trainees, and there's been no re

Public Safety committee  As I said before, over 550,000 firearms were banned, many of them short-barrelled handguns, in the 1990s, and there was no associated benefit from that. I don't see how not allowing a relatively tiny group of users to have handguns would have any effect, especially when recent r

Public Safety committee  I don't think so at all. The problem with a lot of the studies that are performed is there are so many substitute methods for obtaining firearms. It's even in U.S. studies. The ease and ability to transfer firearms across borders through various states makes a lot of those studie